This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I tuned a Wyman Microgrand the other day. The piano is about a year old. = Is this a Chinese or Indonesian product? Where on earth did this thing = come from? A couple interesting features: A 5-ply laminated soundboard and a 5-ply = laminated bridge cap in the high treble. The soundboard had micro-thin = exterior veneers of some spruce-looking material (contact paper?) and = the interior three ply clearly appeared to be some type of hardwood - = poplar? birch? selectus garbagatum?=20 Now the bridge cap - that thing really rocked me. The long bridge was a = solid piece of some kind of hardwood and the manufacturer actually = notched out an 8 mm or so thick chunk off the top of this fine bridge to = insert the laminated cap. Clearly, this was done on-purpose. Presumably = there was a reason to do this. What was that reason? Because they have a = no-compromise approach to piano building? Because the bridge otherwise = sounded sooooo bad - the laminated cap was an afterthought fix attempt? = Because they monitor this list? I don't know what the cap was made of. = It was not maple or beech. Could it have been ironwood (I don't think = so)? I hope it was not the same material the soundboard was made of - it = did look similar and the laminations were about the same thickness. Yeah, but how did it sound? Much like an uninspired microgrand. Small. = Constrained. Short sustain. Lots of false stuff up in the high treble. Oh, and did I mention the tuning pins? "CRACK!" Many of them did the = jumpy thing. And all of them flagpoled enough to make a Steinway = vertical seem like Steinway must use half-inch diameter hardened tuning = pins. If you wanted to raise or lower the pitch a half-cent, you would = have to go 20 cents up or down to get any movement. During the pitch = raise, I had to go 50 cents sharp to get the pitch where I wanted it = after removing hammer from pin. And that's the ones that were not jumpy! = YIKES! Anyway, that's all I gots to say 'bout that. Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/06/54/fb/84/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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